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You are absolutely right! Part of the horribleness is exactly companies like Google who were the ones teaching people that everything should be "free" as in usable without explicit money transaction, and now they are the ones who are (thanks to EU I guess) trying to revert that and make the business model viable through subscription.

So I do get why the problem exists and I feel no empathy for the companies that are to blame for that. But, I do worry that we have a whole generation of people who think that stuff should just exist and have no monetary value like it just materialized out of thin air without anyone working on it before and neither having to keep it running. That is not a healthy mental model and it will contribute to predatory companies being able to harvest data out of these people in the future meanwhile privacy-first companies can't get them as customers because they have to actually ask for money for their services.

Weird to see this downvoted. Youtube is actually a good service that also isn't cheap to run, and it also pays good(?) money to the people producing popular content on the platform so why not pay for using it? Or, you know, live with the ad infestation. Businesses need money to run, and if you don't pay for the content, then either it's the ads or eventually the whole platform needs to be shut down.

It is a separate discussion if Premium pricing is appropriate etc. But it's quite horrifying to see people around the world having been taught into thinking that everything should be "free" even though at the same time everyone is complaining about privacy violation and ads being everywhere all the time.

EDIT: Yeah the link says pretty much the same things (and more) than I did below.

I think it says more about Epic's launcher and sales tactics than about Valve's dominance. I mean, up to a certain point you can compensate your inferior product with a lower price point but if the trade-off is too high, then even giving something out for free doesn't help. Epic's launcher has been quite bad without any clear development in my eyes for a long time, and I can as well relate to the other commenter about not being able to use it natively on Linux. It's just not something worth a few saved euros to put up with.

I do wonder what's the Steam users' demography nowadays. Are there so many adults who earn a decent salary that they can afford actually paying for their games and enjoy a working platform (Steam) instead of saving a buck and losing their hair on the rare occasion they have the time to play something? That can be a tough crowd to lure in with some occasional free games.

But doesn't Creative get rid of the need to actually collect the materials you need? It was so fun back in the days to dig out huge holes in the ground just to build a castle, and also die a bunch of times because you were a bit careless and dug straight down only to discover a large mine right below you :D I don't miss the buggy trains though. If I remember correctly, it took quite a long while for them to actually work properly in multiplayer.

But oh how time files - I just bought the damn game back in 2010 😂 IIRC it was right around the time Notch bumped the version up from Infdev to Alpha and I think there wasn't even proper multiplayer implemented yet then, or it was so much in it's beginnings that it had pretty much no features, like not even spawning mobs or having damage or anything. Later during my university studies we were actually using Minecraft to get our heads wrapped around electronics and latches in our study group and as a part of our course work first built our digital clock in MC with redstone before actually making the assignment on paper 😄

Even if Minecraft isn't exactly the same game anymore as it used to be, it's still nice to see it exist and be available after all these years. The core mechanics are still great and one can still play the older versions if they so wish.

It varies wildly. Sometimes its Skyrim or Fallout 4, sometimes it's some strategy game like Cities Skylines (2) or Factorio, or for a while now I've been playing Euro Truck Simulator 2 after I found out how awesome the gaming wheel support is on Linux. Latest Doom games have also been great for just venting out.

Yes.

I'm curious, what exactly gives a sense of OP being an Israel supporter? I read the post as good pondering about the reasoning for Israel's reactions and some good analogy for US readers through the 9/11 attacks and reactions for it.

It's pretty much required that a nation will either defend themselves or even counterattack heavily if someone attacks them or otherwise they won't stay independent very long (see Ukraine currently or Europe in 1930-1940s) and understanding that doesn't make someone automatically a supporter of either side. Now, it's a good thing to discuss about the size of Israel's reaction because completely destroying another country over a terrorist attack is not going to end up well either. This is something where the 9/11 comparison works well in my mind.

Riippuu varmaan hieman mitä ajanhetkeä käsittelee mutta kyllähän Nokia kämmäsi siinäkin vaiheessa, kun lopulta taipui tekemään kosketusnäyttökapuloita. 5800 Xpressmusic taisi olla ensimmäinen kosketusnäyttöluuri ja voi ristus sentään miten onneton pökäle se oli. Kapula ylikuumeni ihan tavallista puhelua puhuessa ja tosiaan Nokian käyttämät kosketusnäytöt olivat aivan jäätävää ripulia siinä missä kilpailijat valitsivat parempia näyttöjä laitteisiinsa. Tuolloinhan tosiaan väiteltiin resistiivisen ja kapasitiivisen näytön eduista, ja suomalaiset ulisivat jostain puhelimen tökkimisestä pakkasessa hanskat kädessä, kun kapasitiivinen ruutu oli oikeastaan aivan kaikessa muussa huomattavan paljon parempi.

Tavallaan se ketteryys olisi ollut ihan riittävää mutta sisäisesti priorisoitiin vääriä asioita. Meegolla olisi voinut olla vielä mahdollisuudet kilpailla mutta se olisi vaatinut koko firman kattavaa linjausta ja panostusta eikä pientä R&D-puuhastelua jossain yksittäisen toimiston nurkassa ropellihattujen puhelinmalleilla. Eikä se N900:kaan mikään erityisen häävi kapula ollut vertaillessa vaikka saman aikakauden Androidiin. Kaveri osti N900:n samaan aikaan kun itse hankin HTC Desire Z:n, ja kyllähän tuo HTC pyyhki N900:lla lattiaa käytännössä kaikessa muussa kuin deb-pakettien asentelussa. Ei ehkä ihan prioriteetit olleet kohdillaan enää siinä vaiheessa.

Many people also seem to forget that not everyone has a dedicated room or otherwise extra space to work in. Sure, if you live alone it doesn't matter but with other people living in the same apartment/house and perhaps them also working remotely, you suddenly need extra space just for good working conditions. Working space has a cost, be it in an office building or at employees' homes. Also good ergonomics means one needs a good desk and a great office chair which are not cheap to buy. Sure, I wouldn't necessarily demand more pay just for WFH, but I would never ever ever take a lower compensation in exchange either.

That said, I love working remotely from home and wouldn't go back to office. It's just that even if you save time and money in commutes, there are other costs in place that wouldn't otherwise necessarily exist.

It's the same here in Finland. Only one provider (DNA) offers IPv6 for residential customers and others are "working on it" still.

No wonder! I've lately noticed that some non-AAA games run way better on Linux than Windows on my computer (5950X, RTX3090). For some reason Barotrauma seems to lag heavily while playing on Windows but runs buttersmooth on Linux. Valheim has similar effect as well.

Also I have already decided that Win10 is going to be the last Windows version on my machine ever. Gaming on Linux has gotten so damn good over the last few years that I see no reason upgrading my Windows installation anymore.

I had to go and check. 11+ years it seems - oh how the time flies. I was pretty much a lurker so I didn't bother with cleaning up my history. I also never used Digg - I guess I've grown up during the period that Digg was sinking and Reddit gained it's popularity.

Yet it's weird how easily I could replace Reddit with Lemmy after such time. Sure, there isn't an Apollo replacement on iOS but to be honest, I don't currently even want one. Most of the communities have started migrating here as well so I'm not missing anything relevant after all.

Is the PS5 controller limitation for playing single player games? With multiplayer games the PS4 controllers work just fine IIRC.

Proton's free tier is a step to right direction, and at least they don't run a huge advertisement company that could benefit from the free tier users' data. And if you pay for Proton Unlimited, you also get access to SimpleLogin's Premium tier which is nice. I just found this out when I finally bit the bullet and changed away from Gmail over to Proton. Now I don't have to expose my real email address to some random never-to-be-seen-again websites or campaigns if I don't want to.

If one has enough motivation, time and interest in purchasing their own domain, you can get one step forward with changing away from Gmail. Then you can pay something like 5€/month for Proton Mail Plus, use your own domain as your email address and if one day you find a better email provider, you could just change the MX records for that service and wouldn't have to go through all your accounts and update the new address to all the places.

I had pondered moving away from Gmail years and years ever since I found out Google doesn't have any real customer support and HN had stories where people had suddenly been locked out of their Google accounts because of some silly reason and couldn't get their accounts back without some inside connections. At one point most of my digital life was at the mercy of Google and losing access to my Gmail or Google Calendar or G Drive would have been a disaster. Reading all these web-DRM news reminded me that I should continue de-googlefying my life and finally made the change. Firefox has been my primary browser for years and I moved over to iPhone with my phone.

If you aren't native English speaker and therefore use a different keyboard layout than US, pretty much all features disappear on iOS. The keyboard is garbage compared to Android's native keyboard and for some reason even after 3 years of iPhone ownership I still write more typos on the iPhone than I ever did on Android phones.

I wish I could use some 3rd party keyboard, but because Jobs decided in the past that Apple's keyboard is the only thing users ever really need, I can't. There is a limited support for custom keyboards but in practice the user experience is garbage.

Toki, mutta onhan tuossa yhtiölainassa omat ongelmansa. Finanssikriisin jäljiltä osattiin määritellä pankeille raamit joiden puitteissa voi myöntää asuntolainaa suht kestävällä pohjalla. Tämä järjestelmä taasen kiertää tuon reguloinnin, ja johan Hesaristakin ollaan saatu lukea juttuja missä ihan suoraan myönnetään, että pankki ei olisi ikinä myöntänyt lainaa niin kalliiseen asuntoon kuin jonka pystyi itse ostamaan yhtiölainan avulla.

Huvittavaa sinänsä tuo 2013 ja Timo Metsolan maininta. Itse asun taloyhtiössä, joka on valmistunut jo 2011 ja se on yhtälailla rakennettu aikoinaan tuolla tutulla yhtiölainarakenteella. Siinä on vain ehditty lusia lyhennysvapaat aikakausia sitten ja lyhennellä lainojakin niin paljon, ettei suurta riskiä enää ole. En vain ihan usko, että syypää olisi Metsolassa vaan jossain ihan muualla ja kauan ennen tuota 2013 vuosilukua. Hän vain taitaa olla riittävän hölmö kehuakseen olevansa tuossa pääarkkitehti vaikka tosiasiassa rahamiehet tekivät vastaavalla mekanismilla rahaa jo kauan ennen häntä.

Eikös tämä tapahdu jo ihan luontaisesti ajan myötä? Sen sijaan, että blokataan kategorisesti kaikki ääntä aiheuttavat ajoneuvot päivästä X eteenpäin, odotettaisiinkin vain rauhassa ajoneuvojen sähköistymistä koska vuosiluvut ovat jo selvillä (kuten aloitteessakin mainitaan).

Ja sen lisäksi melurajat ovat jo olemassa. Eri asia onkin siinä, että kuka niitä valvoo ja kuinka tehokkaasti.

The problem is that in order to understand how the system works you have to use it first. Now if you are one of the people running away from Reddit, it's natural to try to find the most popular server that provides most content to scroll through because that's how it it used to work.

It also doesn't help that join-lemmy.org highlights active users per month as a metric even though in the end it shouldn't matter at all.